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...months the U.S. aviation industry has been waiting anxiously for May 1, the day on which FAA Administrator Najeeb Halaby was scheduled to announce the winners in the first phase of the design competition to build the airframe and engines for a U.S. supersonic airliner. Last week May Day came and went-and no announcement from Halaby. The U.S. aviation industry suddenly has good reason to remember the meaning of mayday in international code: Help...
...metals and alloys of the ten-year-old plane, which the FAA bought for only $29,000, will also have to be examined to determine their resistance to the stresses...
Winning by a Wing. The FAA report rates Boeing's design first, but places Lockheed's a close second. North American finished out of the money. The experts' recommendations correspond closely to the airlines' choice. With the exception of Continental, which initially chose Lockheed first and North American second, the airlines picked Boeing first-but insisted that they nonetheless want Lockheed to continue in the competition. Boeing's design embodies a "variable sweep" wing that can be extended for takeoffs and landings and tucked back for supersonic flight. Because this is such a revolutionary wing...
...high-flying All certainly helped to keep the company in the race, and clearly gave it the edge over North American, which also submitted a delta-wing design. But when it came to the engines that will power the SST, the choice was considerably less clear. The FAA experts favor the G.E. power plant, but most of the airlines like the United Aircraft engine best; both are fairly conventional jet engines with extremely high thrust. Some lines, notably National, opted for the Curtiss-Wright design, which is the most advanced of the three; it features a porous turbine blade that...
Halaby originally hoped to select a planemaker and enginemaker by May 1, but the recommendations of his staff will probably compel him to extend the competition for another year. During this time no prototypes will be built, but each contestant will produce more detailed studies to enable the FAA and the airlines to make a final choice. Though the extension may delay the date when an American SST enters commercial service to 1973, two years later than the already abuilding Anglo-French Concorde, most U.S. aviation experts feel that the additional study will help avoid costly mistakes...